| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/336 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Labour Party Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Finch, Harold |
| First South Wales Coalfield Project 1972-74 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Harold Finch MP Lab, Pontllanffraith. Includes the development of the South Wales Miners Federation Executive Council; pneumoconiosis compensation cases, and settlements; differences between living in Barry and the valleys; his opinions on socialism; the attempt to increase the number of mining constituency MP's in Parliament; his opinions of Aneurin Bevan, AJ Cook, and Noah Ablett; the importance of the National Council of Labour Colleges; and debates in the Houses of Parliament</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Finch</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Harold [MP Lab] & Jenkins</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>SWMF Compensation Secretary & SWMF District Secretary & Under-Secretary of State for Wales & Members of Parliament </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & South Wales and Monmouthshire Indemnity Society & NUM National Executive Council & National Union of Mineworkers & Medical Research Council & Communist Party & South Wales Miners Industrial Union & Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Coaltrimmers Union & Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) & Plebs League & National Council of Labour Colleges & Labour Party & Miners Parliamentary Group & Socialist League</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tirbach Small Mine</emph><emph altrender="county">Ystalyfera</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Barry</emph><emph altrender="county">South Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Central Labour College</emph><emph altrender="county">London</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Spanish Civil War 1936-39</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pneumoconiosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">silicosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Parliamentary Acts </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">railways </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pensions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">emphysema </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">holidays </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Spanish Civil War </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">fascism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Industrial Injuries Act 1948</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1920 = 1973 (c) |
| 28.2.1973 |
| Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
| Physical Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 2 |
| Language | English |